Tuebrook is a North-East area of

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. At the 2001 census the population was 14,490.

Toponymy

The origin of the name may be Tew Brook, a tributary of the

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. The brook itself is now almost entirely piped or culverted, with the last exposed section at the back of a disused cinema.

Description

Tuebrook includes

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, the Victorian, Grade I

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St John's Church, Tuebrook Market and Tuebrook

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, which is now closed to the public although still in use by Merseyside Police. It is part of the Parliamentary Constituency of

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. A unique characteristic of the main shopping street is that all shops are on one side of the street only. This is largely due to extensive demolition during upgrading of the main road. Tuebrook has two

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s nearby: West Derby School located on Mill Bank and St Francis of Assisi in Newsham Park.

Government

The area consistently elects

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Councillors to

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. At recent elections, the Tuebrook Liberals have enjoyed the largest majorities of any councillors on Liverpool City Council. The current councillors for the Tuebrook and Stoneycroft

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(Tuebrook until 2004) are Steve Radford, Billy Lake and Joe Dunne. Radford's personal popularity enabled him to finish second in the 2001 general election for Liverpool West Derby, coming ahead of both

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and Liberal Democrat candidates. However, in the 2005 general election, this popularity was not enough to keep him in second place and he slipped back down to third, depriving his Liberal Party of its only second-place showing in the UK. For representation to the

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, the area is within the

Parliamentary constituency.

Transport

There are regular buses (numbers 12, 13, 15, 18, 62, 68 and variants thereof) providing services to the city centre, as well as to

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, Croxteth,

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and Old Swan and Stockbridge village. The area is bisected by the A5049 West Derby Road, an east/west arterial route out of

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. Tuebrook also has a railway line which carries freight from Tuebrook sidings near Edge Hill to the

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in the north. The bridge, carrying the

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over West Derby Road, used to accommodate

Tue Brook railway station Tue Brook railway station was located on the north side of West Derby Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool, England, opposite Newsham Park on the Canada Dock Branch. History The station opened on 1 July 1870 and closed to passengers on 31 May 1948. Trai ...

until 1948. The

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System (Line 1) was scheduled to run through Tuebrook prior to the abandonment of the project when funding from the British Government was denied.

used to serve the area, however the line was closed from passenger traffic in 1948. The line itself (

) is still a busy goods route. It was announced in December 2019 that Liverpool City Council had commissioned a feasibility study to consider reopening the Canada Dock Branch to passenger traffic.

References

External links

Liverpool Ward Profile: Tuebrook & Stoneycroft

Liverpool Street Gallery - Liverpool 13
{{Authority control Areas of Liverpool